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Challenging prejudice through participation: a case study of an anti-xenophobic community based organisation in Khayelitsha site c in the Western Cape, South Africa
(University of Western Cape, 2013)
This study is an investigation into how the Site C, Action Committee Against Xenophobia
(SACAX) in Khayelitsha was able to mobilise the community, community based organisations, and governance structures alongside national ...
Nurturing democratic virtues: a case study of a primary school in Khayelitsha
(University of the Western Cape, 2005)
The study sought to explore the priorities and practices of educators with regard to the mediation of moral qualities/democratic virtues related to education for citizenship by means of a case study in one school. In South ...
School organisation development (OD): Learning from a success story in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1999)
In concluding this dissertation I am reminded of Patton's (1990) contention that in order to decide what the appropriate unit of analysis is in a study, you need to decide what it is you want to be able to say something ...
Assessing the use of 'new media' as a communication tool by the ANC,DA and EFF in the run up to South Africa's 2019 provincial and national elections.
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
In May 2019, South Africa held its sixth democratic national and provincial elections. 48 political parties participated in this general election compared to the 19 that participated in 2014. Thus, the 2019 elections ...
Local government duality and its discontents: Rural governance and contestations for power and influence between elected officials and traditional leaders in Matabeleland, Zimbabwe
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This thesis deploys deliberative democracy in order to explore interactions in polity dualism in
Matebeleland South and Matebeleland North, in Zimbabwe. The thesis was premised on two
major problems in the way the issue ...
“It’s My House and I Live Here”: The Mobilisation of Selective Histories for Claims of Belonging in Cape Town
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This mini thesis seeks to explore two legacies of apartheid: the insecurity of decent and available housing that has led to a housing crisis, and the insecurity of Coloured identity as caused by apartheid’s racial and ...
The role of civil society organizations in assisting homeless citizens through participatory governance: A case study of Reclaim the City.
(University of the Western Cape, 2020)
This study investigates how a civil society organisation, Reclaim the City (RTC), based in the old Woodstock Hospital is attempting to address the plight of the homeless through deepening participatory governance. Homelessness ...
The effects Personal of Income Tax on the savings behaviour of households in South Africa
(University of the Western Cape, 1997)
The "new" South Africa faces a big challenge. Unemployment, poverty and economic hardship still characterise the life of the majority of South Africans. Most people expect this to change under democracy. This will only be ...
Exercising linguistic citizenship through Coloured narratives
(University of the Western Cape, 2022)
This project explores the negotiation of shifting racial identities within a transforming post-Apartheid context, in particular, the negotiation of what it means to be ‘coloured’. Twenty-seven years into South Africa’s ...
Developing a Community Engagement Model as a Normative Framework for Meaningful Engagement During Evictions
(University of the Western Cape, 2016)
The research problem of this study is the jurisprudential inconsistency in the application
of the right in section 26(3) of the South African Constitution's Bill of Rights. The
inconsistency is due to inadequate conceptualisation ...